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Should employers record actual working time?

Can purely ‘personal’ disclosures be covered?

Cathrine Ripley, head of our Commercial and Technology/IP department reviews the guidance issued by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on earlier this month about how the consumer goods sector may prepare in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The Tenant Fees Act will come into force on 1 June 2019, with the effect of banning or restricting fees charged by landlord and letting agents to tenants.

In this article our Real Estate team looks at the options available for dealing with problematic restrictive covenants.

CIOSIF invests £750,000 into wireless internet service provider Wildanet.

Commonhold as a tenure of ownership is in the spotlight. The Law Commission has recently announced plans to reinvigorate its use as a replacement for the existing “leasehold” mechanism for ownership of flats and other multi-occupancy buildings.

A team at FSP led by Penelope Garden has advised the shareholders of Independents Insurance on the sale of the company to MRIB Group, a leading UK chartered insurance broker.

Cathrine Ripley, head of the Commercial and Technology/IP department reviews the CMA’s new guidance on celebrities and other social media influencers’ obligation of transparency when endorsing a product or service.

Google has been fined 50 million euros (£44m) by the French data regulator Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Liberties (CNIL), for a breach of the EU’s data protection rules in relation to Google’s personalised advertising.

Cathrine Ripley gives a summary of a recent High Court (Technology and Construction Court) judgement which emphasises the importance of clarifying the scope of remedial work in the construction industry.